Name
Deinonychus
Meaning
Terrible claw
Pronunciation
Die-NON-I-kuss
Found in 
North America
Anatomy
two powerful hind legs 


the slender neck was curved and flexiable. 
had large eyes of a preditor. 
had a large head and jaws. the skill was lightly build and its jaws were packed with sharp teeth that had serrated edges and which curved backward inside its mouth.
Length
3 m
Height
1.5 m
Weight (mass)
75 kg
Locomotion
bipedal
Food preference
Carnivore (vertebrates, plant eating dinosaurs)
Time period
Cretaceous (110-100 million years ago)
Type of hip
Lizard hipped
Dinosaur group
theropod
Remains
skull, limbs, and back bone in 1931, in 1964 several nearly complete skeletons were discovered in the same area.

 
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